Out of the frying pan... Midori looked on in horror as the Negari crawled out of its own corpse, and even worse, brought friends along. There must have been twenty of them, at least. Sure, they didn't look dangerous individually, but if the bees sting the bear enough...
She needed a plan of action, and the choice was obvious. If she faced the big Negari again with her mana drained, she'd be a pulp in seconds, so she turned on the horde of minions. She spun her staff at one of the drill-like creatures, smacking it in the flank, then the back of the head, and finally finished it off with a strike from above that crushed its skull. Then, she saw Aegis in trouble. "Hang on, Aegis! I'm coming for you!"
She needed a plan of action, and the choice was obvious. If she faced the big Negari again with her mana drained, she'd be a pulp in seconds, so she turned on the horde of minions. She spun her staff at one of the drill-like creatures, smacking it in the flank, then the back of the head, and finally finished it off with a strike from above that crushed its skull. Then, she saw Aegis in trouble. "Hang on, Aegis! I'm coming for you!"